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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. I3SIXKD 8EMI-WEEKLT. l. m. grist's sons, publishers, j q^3uiilg JP?uJsj}aj|?iu t!u{ ^promotion d| thi( jOoIifical, Social, ^jjri^ultu^al and (IJommeiicial Jfnl^r^stb a| th$ | single copy, fits cents. ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C. TUESDAY. MAKCH 4, 1919. NO. 18 BRITISH LABOR PROBLEMS Significant Steps ot the Working Hen of the Country THE OLD ORDER IS NOW PASSING Indication* are That Peacsful Revolution i* Now Being Consummated, and the Privilege of Idleness is About to Go. Amid stormy circumstances, writes a correspondent of the New York World, representatives of British labor and capital convened last Thursday at the British Industrial Parliament and voted to form a committee representing both capital and labor to Investigate the great questions at the root of the industrial convulsions in England. The parliament was composed of 500 representatives of 10,000,000 workers and 300 representatives of capital. Sub-committees are to be formed to take up questions of wages, hours and housing, and on April 15 a Joint committee will report to a second meeting of the parliament, when it is hoped to form a permanent body which can handle Industrial questions in an effort to prevent tying up the nation's industries. Henderson Credited With Results. It was a victory for the regular leaders of labor instead 01 tne extremists, but It was principally due to the radical Arthur Henderson's great speech and programme. Premier Lloyd George was glad to accept the resolution of one whom, during the election, he was most interested in snowing under by the cry of Bolshevism. He accepted Mr. Henderson's plan in preference to the oimj offered by representatives of capital, but at the very end of the meeting the whole plan was almost wrecked by some of the labor representatives, who declared that the premier, through rhetorical means, was trying to ram something down the throats of the workers without labor organizations being permitted to vote on them. There is still a chance that this disaffection may have serious results on the value of today's decisions. The day's deliberations were marked by the frankest criticism of the pre mier and the government ana oy me reiteration from all the workers, of their determination to attain the great objects for which organized labor is striving. "Hold Together" Is Warning. Stuart Bunning of the labor congress, pointing to the premier, declared that during the election the premier had cried "Bolshevism" to the very men who were there today and said, "Cuyses have come home to roost." Premier Lloyd George's speech at f^ . the end of the session was frequently interrupted by dissenting voices or by reminders of distrust in the government, which made his earlier remarks labored, and only at the very end did he make an impassioned plea to the workers and employers for restored conflAnce to meet and solve the problem confronting the nation, "the greatest problem which has ever confronted us in time of peace." With Are, he exclaimed: "Hold together!" reminding his hearers that on another critical period during the war he had said "hold fast" not unavaillngly. Peaceful Revolution Evident. N'ever has the British worker more clearly Indicated than he did today that a peaceful revolution has alreadytaken place in Great Britain and is creating for him a position in society which he means to achieve and maintain What was marked in the government's attitude, as expressed by the premier ana me rnuor imuisici, ??. ? the recognition that the workers never would accept the old conditions. The most astute students of labor problems in this country expressed their belief to the World correspondent tonight that a great good had been done at a critical moment by the premier's call for the Industrial Parliament, for it gave opportunity to labor to state its case and to remove the fiction that Bolshevism is behind the upward striving of the masses. How sure organized labor feels of its compelling power Is seen In the momentous demand of the triple alliance of the miners, railway men and trans port workers, which was outlined to the conference by J. H. Thomas, who said: "We stand unalterably for ownership by the state of the mines and railways and the means of inland and coastal transport." John Robert Clynes, however, warned labor not to demand too much in too brief a space of time. Miners' Strike Postponed. Strike notices, effective March 15, have been postponed for a week by the National Federation of Miners after a conference today, the government's invitation having been accepted to nominate representatives to a commission to inquire into the condition of the coal miners. It is understood that the miners are to have half the representatives on the body in inquiry. The results of today's big conference do not interfere with the present negotiations under way with the triple alliance or other organized bodies. Its decision Is only the first attempt to investigate the great issues which lie at "* the bottom of the whole industrial trouble and to try to find a way out to stabilize the future. The women workers will have a conspicuous place in this portentous scheme. * ' Both Sides Considerate. There was no attempt to make this first meeting' of capital and labor a Donnybrook fair. In fact there was immediate decision of the whole meeting to give the matter a just hearing. Capital was listened to without recrimination. The pervading note of the employers' remarks had a good augury, especially when one speaker declared: "Labor does not know how far we are willing to go." The meeting itself was picturesque in the fact that labor smoked its seasoned ' briars under the very nose of the premier and next to the delicately attuned nostrils of the "vested interests." Nor was it without humor, especially when, as the wedding bells of Westminster Abbey across the street were ringing and the Princass "Pat" was nearing the church for her marriage, one of the labor men referred to the bad Impression on the workmen created by the report that the princess has seventy-nine night gowns in her trousseau, while some of the working women hardly had one. This convulsed the premierTHE REASONS FOR REDUCTION. John L. Mcl.aurin Says Farmers Should Go On Strike. It is pretty generally understood that Hon. John L. McLaurln is one of | the best authorities on cotton in the United States. He knows all about the J staple in all of its uses and ramifications. He knows how to raise cotton to the best economic advantage, from preparing the land to ginning the bale. He knows all about the labor question. He knows all about the manufacture. Then along with it, he knows all about cotton finance from the lien on the renter's crop to international manipulation by which the profits that should belong to the cotton growers of the south are divided among the Philistines of the world. The part that the money changers of Europe play with the money changers of the east and the part that people of the south play in furthering the plans of the money changers of the east are to him an open book. lie has done more than any other one man probably to show the cotton producer how to help himself and to heip the cotton producer help himself. He is permeated through and through with a feeling that he would rather do that than anything else, and that is why the farmers of Chesterfield county, when they wanted some straight information on the situation went to Mr. McLaurin for it. And Mr. McLaurin gave it to them. Here is a part of his speech that is well worth reading .and thinking about: The mills of the United States have made tremendous profits by the war. Most of them have paid for their plants, as well as improvements. They have made many improvements so as to escape the heavy income tax. With their profits they have heaped up large stocks of goods, anticipating an extraordinary demand from Europe on account of the destruction of manufacturing plants in France and Belgium. Much of the manufactured gOOdS on Storage represent tuuvu bought at from Ave to twelve cents a pound. Cotton goods have not declined. On the contrary in the New York Commercial, page 3, first column, of February 24th, there is recorded an advance in the goods of from l-4th to 1 cent a yard. An advance of l-4th of a cent a yard in goods is equal to 1 1-4 cents a pound in cotton. Yet spots were marked down 76 points the day after an advance in goods. The average is about .08 cents a yard, and of this class of goods, one pound o{ cotton of micyUng^ aradq* will make six yards of cloth. One pound of cotton costing 25 cents makes 48 cents worth of cloth, Including the profit to the mill. If tl?e mill buys the cotton at 25 cents and manufactures it at a profit at .08 cents a yard, then the difference of 23 cents gives them a bonus of $100 on eacli and every bale of cotton manufactured. There is no rubbing this fact out. This profit is entirely at the expense of the farmer, and unless remedied is bound to bank rupt him. As a matter of fact, most of this cloth is manufactured of lowgrade cotton bleached white, which is selling below 16 cents a pound. The farmer has no organization, his only resource is a strike, and I say strike, and strike right now. Cut your acreage and live at homeCongress has a bill before it, which will help cotton. It is proposed that the government will assist export firms who are unable to borrow money in the ordinary banking channels. The loans will be limited to the contract price for the goods and the rate of interest only slightly more than the discounts on commercial paper. With the embargo lifted and flnan - -? - Ciai accommuaauuns me iini.c wi ton will take care of itself. Germany uses more low grade cotton in proportion than any other country, and I have some "Marlboro blues" that would make a splendid winding sheet for the kaiser. A Victory Highway.?People in other parts of the United States should find inspiration in the tree-planting campaign undertaken by the residents of Bell county, Texas. These thoughtful citizens have subscribed liberally to a fund which is being used to beautify the Templc-Belton road or Victory highway. At every interval of thirty feet a tree is planted on either side of the road, numbered, and dedicated by the person who plants it to some Bell county soldier who fought in the great war, while a label on the tree gives the name and title of this soldier. With each tree are pianiea also two pecan nuts and two walnuts. If these produce seedlings, the owner of the tree may take his choice of one of these seedlings of the orginal tree. Here is a combination of partriotism, aestheticism, and utility. The Victory highway will be useful as well as ornamental for generations to come. It will be sought by the tourist of the future not only for its beauteous shade, but out of sheer respect for the good taste and good sense of the people who designed and developed it. Times Change and Men Change With Them. One hundred and forty years ago, artist Charles Wilson Peale ^ nArtroU nf Wash paiU .A;U 1,41*5 v* W. - ington that President Wilson, the other day, unveiled at 10 Downing street, London; and how remarkable is the sequence of historic events that has placed this particular portrait in a building that is held to be the center of the British government! The portrait crossed the ocean in 1780 with Henry Laurens, who was bound on a mission to He Hand; but the vessel was captured, by Captain George Keppel of the British navy. Laurens went to the tower until he was exchanged for Cornwallis: the discovery of his mis sion led to war between England and Holland; the portrait of Washington remained in the Keppel family until it was presented to the British government, when the United States entered the world war. If you must have wrinkles, get them from laughing. THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS From Now on There Will Be a Hietory Making Fight. The sixty-flfth congress of the United States will go out of existence on Mon day, March 3. The sixty-Blxth congress will come into exlstance on the following day, but, unless called by the president to meet in extraordinary session, will not convene until the first Monday in December. The outgoing congress is Democratic; the incoming congress is Republican. From March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1921, or until the close of the present presidential term the national legislature and the national administration will be of opposite political complexions. A Democratic congress and a DemI ocratlc administration took the responsibility for leading the country into war, and must assume the responsibility for its conduct on the part of the United States. The completion of the work of the war, the carrying on of renconstruction made necessary by the war, "the binding of the nation's wounds," readjustment to altered conditions, care of the veteran soldiers and sailors, rehabilitation of national industry, support of the national finance, all the finishing business of the conflict, so far as the United States is concerned, as J well as the recementing of certain international relations and the resumption of others, will constitute employ ment that must be shared by a Republican congress and a Democratic president The two ends of Pennsylvania avenue will be constantly under the white light of public observation during the next eighteen months at least. At the end of that time, the nation will no doubt feel that It knows whether the Democratic party or the Republican party should be trusted with the control of national affairs. At the outset, the Democrats enjoy advantage in the indisputable fact that they have a leader in whom the country has almost unlimited confidence: they are at a disadvantage in the fact that they have a congress that is turning over to a Republican successor an Immense amount of important work which it should itself have performed. At the outset, the Republicans have advantage in the fact that they need take no party responsibility for making the war or for conducting it; that they are free to dis cover, if they can, important mistakes and blunders made by their predecessors; that they have the opportunity of setting right many things that are now awry; and that they are, broadly speaking, in a position to show the people, from inference by-comparison, how much better they could have managed things had they, Instead of their opponents been in power during the last two years. The advantage of the outset on either side will not be of value unless it shall be maintained by works. ^ The nation is disposed to see that the president shall have fair, even generous treatment at the hands of the Republican :ongress, but neither the virtue nor the popularity of the president can be expected, on the one hand, constantly io outweight shortcomings revealed in the record of his party, or, on the other hand, always to over-shadow the praiseworthy accomplishments of the Republicans. The probabilities are that President Wilson, from this time ? .....~.a will ho /*rmsirlered bv the lurncuu, ?>ii uv great majority of the American electorate as a man apart and that each of the two great parties will have to rest its case solely upon its merits or demerits as either have been, or shall have been, displayed during this exceptionally important period in the history of the republic. The Republican congress, if called to meet in extra session, and it is difficult to see how such a call can be avoided will have a great opportunity to improve upon the work of its predecessors in the matter of disposing, and disposing intelligently and satisfactorily, of business that should long since have had attention. Many measures insistently demanded by the people have been neglected, and will very likely be left over on March 3. The regular legitimate ousiness awwuug disposition in both houses of the sixtysixth congress will supply the members with abundant occupation. If they shall make the mistake of turning from this business to the framing of a party issue, the public will not be pleased- The partisan issue will take care of itself if the Republican party, through its representation in congress, shall take care of the urgent needs of the nation In the way of legislature. If that party neglects the nation for partisan purposes, it will be certain to lose all the advantage it had at the beginning. The record which the Incoming congress shall make will very largely, if not wholly, determine the manner in which the presidential election of 1920 shall go. What the nation is looking for now is skillful dealing with the questions which the war has left unsettled, a satisfactory solution of the important problems; it will be impatient with petty bickerings, tlmewasting contention over trivialities, and small politics of every nature. Christian. finionrp Monitor. Don't-Feel-Like-Work. If any of us don't feel like working why, we are sick. And we don't have to be at home and ir bed in order to be sick. It is not normal not to feel like working. We are sick if we are short of normal. The remedy is easy and cheap cheaper to apply than not to apply not only in the cost but in the final economy of doing more with less effort and earning more. The salesman, for instance, who feels more :ike going to a picture show than calling upon prospective purchasers and thus selling more and earning more, is sick in the sense that he does not feel normal. Here is the remedy in one or all of the four following stipulations: TTHrst* Don't eat so much; cut down on concentrated food, like meat, eggs and the like, and eat more vegetables like cabbage, greens and celery, of bulk character. Second: Drink at least six glasses of water a day and more in summer. Third: Sleep with the windows up and without the head covered with the bed clothes. Fourth: Walk at least part way to and from work. Walk fast and breathe deeply. The greatest mistake most of us make Is In believing that the more we | eat the more strength we add to our bodies and minds. Excess foods of certain types goes to make excess fat, which is the worst kind of baggage. It takes strength to j carry this excess baggage around that might better be used in productive effort working. Some of us become fa- i tigued in carrying this excess baggage around, and the result is that we don't feel like working. Most of the indisposition toward work, and that tired feeling, are a rejsult of confusing stomach emptiness with hunger. The way most of us eat, it would , take about ten days of fasting to really , get hungry. Fill up the emptiness with bulk fruits and vegetables and go without a meal or two now and then by filling up with water. If any of lis don't feel like working it is a good plan to keep on working and quit eating. As to what we eat, it is well to follow our own instincts; that is, eat what we want, or what agrees with us, but cut down on the quantity of concentrated foods. The don't-feel-like-work feeling, or just plain laziness, or fatigue after a normal amount of effort, simply means that we have been using energy, that might have been productive and profitable, in digesting needless amounts of foods and in resisting poisons that are generate< by accumulated waste. BLEAK REGIONS OF ARCHANGEL Base of British and American Troops Operating in Russia. Archangel, Russia, where a joint Allied and American expeditionary force has been in conflict with Bolshevik troops, is described in a bulletin of the AAA(n.QnK(n oAoi otv loallAf) , xiauunai wwv<wV , from its Washington headquarters. "The city of Archangel, where Allied and American troops have their headquarters, was the capital of the Archangel province, or government, under the czar's regime, a vast, barren, and sparsely populated region, cut through by the Adriatic circle," the bulletin says. "West and east, the distance across the Archangel district is about that from London to Rome, from New York to St Louis, or from Boston to Charleston, S- C. Its area, exclusive of interior waters, is greater than that of I Prance, Italy, Belgium -And Holland combined. Yet there a^e not many more* people in these great stretches than are to be found in Detroit, Mich., or San Francisco, CaL, or Washington, D. C. "The climate is extremely cold. In the northern parts the ground does no't thaw the year round. The port of Archangel is lce-oouna six mwuu ur i Ah? star, . anil, utl ly t?*% I only three months. t "Arable land in all this territory is 1 less than 1,200 square miles and three- i fourths of that is given over to pas- r turage. The richer grazing land supports Holmagor cattle, a breed said to c date back to the time of Peter the i Great, who crossed native herds with f cattle from Holland. t "Rocky, barren plains stretch south i of Archangel city and these, with the ? swamps and marshes to the east, and i more plains and lakes to the south- t west, form about half the province, while a third more is overgrown with t forests. There also are tundras, cover- j ed with lichens, where reindeer find i pasturage. i "About fifty miles from the mouth s of the Dvina river, which affords an r outlet to the White sea, lies the city of t Archangel. Norsemen came to that c port in the tenth century for trading, r One expedition was described by Alfred the Great. But first contact with ( Al A ' J A nrn n aaiohltflhaH in I lie UUUjlUe VVUllU nao vovuwifMVM ... ? the sixteenth century when Sir Richard Chancellor, an English sailor, stopped at the bleak haven while attempting a northeast passage to India. Ivan the Terrible summoned him to Moscow and made his visit the occasion for furthering commercial relations with England- Thirty years after the Englishman's visit a town was established and for the next hundred years it was the Muscovite kingdom's only seaport, chief doorway of trade with England and Holland. "When Peter the Great established St. Petersburg as his new capital much trade was diverted to the Baltic, but Archangel was compensated by designation as the capital of the Archangel government. Boris Gudunov threw trade open to all nations, and in the seventeenth century Tartar prisoners were set to work building a large bazaar and trading hall. Despite its isolation the city thus became a cosmopolitan center and up to the time of the world war Norwegian, German, British, Swedish and Danish cargo vessels came in large numbers. "Every June thousands of pilgrims would pass through Archangel on their way to the famous far north shrine, Solovetsky Monastery, situated on an islajid a little more than a half day's boat Journey from Archangel. "The city acquired its name from the Convent of Archangel Michael. In the Troitzki cathedral, with its five domes, is a wooden cross, fourteen feet high, carved by the versatile Peter the Great, who learned the use of mallet and chisel while working as a ship wright in Holland after he ascended < the throne." < ? I No Need for Prison. After the Unit- ? ed States becomes bone-dry many i iails in the country may be in the same i case with the old log jail In Brown j county, Indiana, which had had no < compulsory tenant these seven years i and is to be preserved as a curio. The .< Brown county jail was built in 1837, | "good and solid," according to the re- i cord, for the handsome sum of $175, i and the last prisoner was his own j jailer. Sentenced for some petty of- i fensc, the keys were handed over to him and he went out every day to work and came back every night to lock himself up. During this incarceration he also acted as jailer for two other petty offenders serving shorter terms. This sounds like comic opera, but so it was. Ask the Boys. Those who speak of their sons or brothers coming through I the war "without a scratch" forget about the cooties. Boston Transcript. MUST 00 TO SCHOOL General Assembly Agrees On Compulsory Attendance Law MORE OFFICERS TO GET SALARIES All Children Between Eight and Four teen Years of Age Required 4o Attend School at Least Four Months f Out of Each Year^ Provision for the f Punishment of Parents and Guard.ians Disregarding the Act. The general assembly has agreed upon a compulsory attendance law which applies to all children between the ages of eight and 14 years. No truant officer is to be paid in excess 5f $1,200 per year, and women are eligible for this position. Where indi- 9 gent parents are unable to purchase books for their children It is incumbent upon the county board of education to purchase these books for the 0 children. Any child living more than two and one-half miles from a school, r ir any child under 12 years /of age ? living more than two miles from a ichool is exempt from the provisions f >f the act, unless a school wagon route 9 runs within one mile of the home. Par- 0 6 mts or guardians who violate the pro risiona of the law are punishable by a ^ Ine of not less than $5 nor more than 110 for each offense. It is incumbent " jpon teachers to assist in the enforcer nent of the law. Failure to so assist s punishable by a fine of $5 for each F >ffense, to be deducted from the sal- ^ iry of the teacher thus convicted. The senate amended the bill so as ? 0 allow districts wishing a compulsory attendance period in excess of a 'our months to apply the compulsory 'eature of the Qualified electors so 3 petition. The senate amendments were idopted by the house by a vote of 68 :o 33. The bill reads: Section 1. That every parent, guardan or other person having charge of a my child between eight and 14 years >f age must send such child to a pub- n ic, private of parochial school, or to 1 competent tutor, subject to the ap- u >roval of the county superintendent of 8 :ducation, for four consecutive months 1 >r 80 days during the scholastic year 3 hni tVio nnVinnl nttpnHpri la In apaalrtn sxcept as herein after provided: Pro- c ided that in case the term of any school b s less than four months or 80 days ll ittendance for the full term of such 1 ichool shall be sufficient. to meet the 0 equirements of this act. Sec. 2. Upon the written petition a 0 najority of the qualified electors re- s iiding in any school district request- * ng tho attendance of pupils on school hroughout the full term, .the county 0 >oard of education shall order such at- p cndance in any district where a onger school term than four months C s now maintained and attendance is equired under the local option law. Sec. 3. That any child whose physl- t :al, mental or moral condition unfits s t for attendance at school is exempt n rom the requirements of section 1; n hat such child must be designated as p mflt by a person competent to judge n ind appointed to do so, by the board f, ippointing the attendance officer for i Hill lerrituiy. ^ Sec. 4. That any child living more t, han two and one-half miles from any n >ubllc, private or parochial school and t iny child under 12 years of age llv- j( ng more than two miles from such a ichool, may claim exemption from the jequirements of Section 1: Provided, ^ hat any pupil living within one mile a >f any regular route of a school wagon nay not claim exemption. n Sec. 5. That any private or paro- a :hial school attended by any child be- ? ween eight and 14 years of age shall ^ >e first provided by the state board of p ducation. Such school must give its j nstructlon in the English language, Q md it must teach such subjects as are t equired in a similar public school in c south Carolina. Sec. 6. The county board of educa.ion shall appoint such attendance oficer or officers as the needs of the u jublic schools of the county may re- ^ luire: Provided, that the board of trus- { ees of any district containing an in- t orporated town or city of 2,000 in- Q labitants may nominate to the county r oard of education the attendance oficerfor their district and may fix his Sl :ompensatfon from the special tax ^ 'unds of their district. The duties of mch attendance officers shall be to g alee annually a school census of all ^ he children in each district between he ages of six and 14 years, and to P ile with the county board of educaion a report giving by school districts he name of each such child, the race, .he sex and the names and local ad- 8 Iress of each child's parent. This ;ensus shall be taken during the nonths of July and August. Any child 8 neligible to attend the public schools p ihall be reported by the attendance oficer to the county superintendent, who ihall transmit such report to the exe- 8 :utive head of the proper state school v 'or such special child. Sec. 7. Women shall be eligible for * 4. ?? r\r? PAiintv nt 'mpioyniuiii cua uiou.w , endance officers. d Sec. 8. That it shall be the further n luty of each attendance officer to re- n :eive from the superintendent or prin- v ;ipal of any school within the district d )r territory, the name of every child b jetween eight and 14 years of age ab- 8 icnt from school, and to ascertain from t :he parent or guardian of such child a :he reason for such absence. If such t ibsence is due to any other than provi- f lential cause or causes as would ser- J iously endanger the health of the child, r such parent or guardian must be noti- c led to appear before the nearest mag- e strate at a special time to show cause a why he or she should not be punished ! for his or her neglect: Provided, that 8 :he attendance officer may, in his or her a discretion, excuse any absence. A full t record of such excused absence, to- r rether with the reasons therefor, shall C flioH monthly with the county su- t perintendent of education. t Sec. 9. That all attendance officers 1 shall have the right to require a birth t :ertiflcate or an affidavit as to the age ot any child in his or her district or territory. They shall have the fur- " ther right to ascertain if any child be- y tween eight and 14 years of age is employed. These officers shall keep a a -ecord of all notices served and cases prosecuted, and shall make a full report of them once a month to the coun:y board of education. Sec. 10. That any parent, guardian >r other person having charge of any :hild subject to the provisions of this ict who willfully neglects or refuses to :omply with these provisions shall be leemed guilty of a misdemeanor and lpon conviction before any magistrate >e fined not less than $5 nor more han $10 for each offense. That such Ines are to be paid Into the school und of such district In which said ofense was committed. Sec. 11. That it shall be the duty of ach teacher, principal or superintenlent of any school to notify at once h? attendance officer of the absence >f any child between eight and 14 ears of age from school, and teacher, >rincipal or superintendent willfully leglecting or refusing to report any kbsence to the attendance officer shall lave deducted from his or her salary or the current month $5 for each ofense, the same to be deducted by the ounty superintendent of education. Sec. 12. In the case of a widowed nother or of a crippled father any hild above 12 years of age whose a.bor may be necessary for the supiort, in whole or in part of any peron, may be excused. The children f parents unable to purchase the necssary books for attendance upon a lubllc school shall, upon the order of he county board of education, be furlished these books out of the public unds of their district. The county ioards of education shall be the comment judges of such cases. Sec. 13. To pay the salaries of all he county attendance' officers herein .uthorlzed, the sum of 360,000 shall e appropriated annually by general ssembly, no such salary to exceed 1,000 per annum. All disbursements hall be made upon duly itemized ouches with the comptroller general, laid fund to be apportioned by the tate superintendent of education. Sec. 14. No child under 14 years of ge shall be employed in any factory, rork shoD or mercantile establish lents or any place or manner during he usual school hours In said district, nless the person employing such child hall first procure a certificate from he superintendent or teacher of the chool said child last attended stating hat the child attended school for such urrent year for the period required y law or has been excused from atendance as provided by the third secIon hereof, and it shall be the duty f said superintendent or teacher to urnish such certificate on application f the parent, guardian or other peron having control of such child enItled to same. Sec. 15. All acts or parts of acts lnonsistent with this act are hereby reealed. lerman Stronghold to be Cleared of Defenses. The final armistice conditions which he surpreme council is considering ays a London correspondent will be lade public before the end of the lonth, according to various newspa ers, and they will Include among the aval conditions the demolition of the oris on Helgoland and the Kiel canal, ne surrenuer iw (juipuscs ?i ucdwuolon of the German warships now inernedand the opening of the Kielcaal for civil transports. It is stated hat Germany will be left with a fleet irgo enough for defensive purpose. The naval correspondent of The )aily Mail, writing of the strong fortlcations on the Island of Helgoland ays: "The summit of the island isoneifrnlense bomb proof, and the batteries re so placed as to be invisible from he sea. The heavy guns there 11 ich and 12 inch weapons probably /ere reinforced during the war by 5 inch guns. The guns are mounted n steel turrets of great thickness. All he batteries and observation posts are onnected by subterranean pasages and he roads leading up to them run along alleries which are shell proof. "The guns are mounted after the isual German fashion so as to give hem an immense range, probably rom 10 to 12 1-2 miles. To enable he island to stand the concussion - JI v- HI. i ineir auuiuugc auu ected against it, 6,000,000 pound* s said to have been spent before 1910, nd subsequently other large sums rere allotted. "The Immense seaplane sheds are aid to have been of the disappearing ype, which could be lowered as a protection against long range Are. 'here are store shops and repair rorks with all the usual equipment of a aval base. The fortifications preumably will be blown up, but their estruction will be no easy business, 'hey are of armored concrete and teel, and a very large quantity of explosives will be required. "The fortifications at each entrance o the Kiel canal are of immense trength and are lavishly supplied rtth the heaviest guns In steel tur eta." Hungry for Horte Meat. Eight hunred condemned army horses and aules were sold at auction to a Gernan butcher near Coblenz last week, writes a correspondent, with the unerstandlng that all the animals must e killed to help relieve the meat hortage within the occupied area. All he animals sold had been inspected nd found unfit for military use, owing o age or because they had been afected by gas during the war. Captain oseph Kittel of Pikeville, Tenn., renount officer of the quartermaster orps, acted as autioneer, and butchrs from all parts of the occupied zone .ttended tlfe sale- One horse brought 1,175. Before the war first-class Beldan horses in this district were worth .bout $500 each. The sale was adverised in German newspapers, and as a esult many inquiries are pounug imw Joblenz from other cities asking when he next sale takes place. A great nany letters Inquire especially regarding mules, as the mule is said to And a letter market than the horse. Class Was All Right. Angry prof.Do you think this class is a joke oung man?" Stude "No, sir, I'm not laughing .t the class." Jack-o'- Lantern. PAY OF COUNTY OFFICERS Legislature Saya the Public Has i Right to Know. Columbia State, Friday. The house yesterday passed to thin reading by an overwhelming majorit; two bills to require all county officer to keep Itemized statements of all feei and costs collected. These accounts art to be open to public Inspection. Fall ure to keep such accounts is to be pun I isnaoie Dy a nne or not jess tnan *t>i nor more than $200 or imprisoniren not less than two months nor more thai six months, or both, In the discretloi of the court. The law has been on the statuti books since 1912, but as a provlsioi was then added so that the law wat not applicable to Newberry, Sumter Lexington and Berkeley counties, th< general law was rendered unconstitU' tlonal and thus a dead letter on th< statute books. One of the bills is t< amend Section 637, Volume PI, Crlnv lnal code, 1912, so as to cut out thii provision, and the other provides foi the punishment for violation. The bills caused warm debate on th< floor of the house. Opposition to the measure was voiced by Mr. Owens o: the Marlboro delegation and Mr Hughes of Marion. Mr. Owens con' tended that those who wanted to knov how much salary county offlceri were receiving might gain this lnfor mation by a close scrutiny of all th< papers handled by these officers Those in favor of the measure argued that the average person did not hav< the time or the inclination to examine all the papers and books of any office to ascertain Just the amount of salarj any county officer might receive. Mr. Crews of Richland county offered an amendment, to exclude Richland from the Drovlsions of the act but the house was In no mood to tamper with the constitutionality of the measure which was being passed oc yesterday. The two measures read: Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina: Section 1. That Section 681 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1912, Volume I. requiring county ofllcers tc keep Itemized accounts of the moneys received by them be, and the same if hereby amended by striking out all after the word "kept," on line 13 ol said section, so that said section, when so amended, shall read as follows: "Section 681. Each county of fleet shall be required to purchase and keep in his office, open to public inspection during office hours, a book In which shall be kept an itemized account ol all moneys received or due to him, whether received by him or due to him as salary, fees or costs, or In any othei manner, as pay to him for his service* by virtue of his office: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be Construed to require any officer to demand the payment of^ his fees anc costs in advance. At the close of each fiscal year each county officer shal on HomWari r-nnv nf Mid aC. uauouiiv (Mi ivvMMMVM wvr# count, under oath, to the office of count} supervisor, la addition to other boolu kept The county supervisor In addition to other books kept in his office shall keep a separate book, In which he shall enter upon his books the total amount of each account so furnished opposite the name of. the officer furnishing the said account and file the accunt of his office as other count) records are kept" Sec. 2. This act shall go into effeci Immediately upon ita approval by the governor. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina: ' Section 1. That Section 537 of the Criminal Code of South Carolina, 1912, Is hereby amended by striking out the proviso of said section, so that said section, when so amended, shall reac as follows: "Section 537. Any county officer neglecting or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of Sectlor 681 of the civil code, requiring of fleer* to keep an itemized statement of fee* and costs received, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than twe nor' more than six months, either or both, at the discretion of the court." Sec. 2. This act shall go into effect Immediately upon aproval by the governor. Now in the Bread Line. Baron Von der Lancken, formerly German civil governor of Belgium, writes an Associated Press correspondent from The Hague, sought refuge in Holland when the Germans retreated from Belgium, Von der Lancken was the man to whom the American minister, Brand Whitlock, delivered his vain appeal tc spare the life of Edith Cavell, the English nurse who was executed by th* Germans in October, 1915, for aiding the British, French and Belgaina soldiers to escape from Belgium. Von der Lanchen then told Hugh Gibson, secretary of the American legation, that the sentence imposed by the mill* nn Pave 11 was final UlIJ QVTViuvt VM and that the civil governor could not overrule it When Von der Lancken arrived here he went to the German legation, but in order to obtain food cards, he had to apply to the police station where he failed miserably in his efforts to obtain preferential treatment aa a "distinguished visitor." A chance caller there found him in line with a group of unwashed refugees, his well-groomed figure out of keeping with his surroundings. He was compelled to stand in line for two hours before his wants were attended to. To one who remembers the time when to get a word from Von dei Lancken In Brusels it was necessary to give two days' notice, after which one had to struggle through a bodyguarc of haughty, suspicious underlings, the spectacle of this exquisite specimen ol Prussian Junkerdom waiting his turr in the file amid the grimy proletariat afforded an excellent illustration o: "the times that are changed." To Salvage Sunken Wealth.?Raising sunken vessels is a branch of engineering in which a French writei foresees much activity for a considerable time. The British admiralty haj reported more than 15,000,000 tons o: vessels sunk between August 1, 1914 and November 1, 1918, and It Is be liered that a considerable portion can be salvaged. The prewar value of a i ship, and Its cargo averaged 9135 a ton, while It Is now estimated at three times as much. For floating completej ly submerged vessels there are four y processes: (1) Building a coffer dam 9 over a vessel and pumping out water B faster than it enters; (2) building a 1 tight coffer dam around the hull, then pumping out and repairing the damage; (8) forcing the water out from certain compartments first made water tight, by compressed air; (4) temporary repairs of breach by divers, then building a coffer dam over one of the hatches, and partially pumping out the water. The Walkure at Tahiti was raised by the first method; the Blaine and the Liberte the latter filled with projectiles by the second method. ART WORKS RECOVERED. French Get Back Many Masterpieoes That Germans Carried Away. Great anxiety, writes a Paris correspondent, has been felt during the whole course of the great conflict for the invaluable artistic treasures which for four long years were exposed in the nortl. of Prance to the devastation of war. For the museums of northern France were amongst the richest of the country, even of Europe, and were consequently a tempting prey for German official connoisseurs. The museum of Lille was, perhaps, . must uauiy ireuiea oy me u-ermanB. 11 - I contained maaterplecee signed by Ru3 bens, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Jordaens, s Garard David, Goya, Chardln, Frago> nard. All these works were transported r to Valenciennes, as well as several hundred drawings by Mantegna, Glot to, Poussin, Correglo, Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo. Tl^ese deport, ed masterpieces were soon rejoined by the pictures which had been the pride s of the museum of Douai; works by van l der Weyden, Rubens, Holbein van der Goss, Antonio Moro, followed by the rare MSS. of the archives of Laon, were soon stored near the artistic spoils of Lille. Happily they have now been discovered; at the approach of the British troops, the Germans had hastily sent them on to Brussels in barges, which were abandoned by the army of the former kaiser at La Cape lle-au-Bo is. Fortunately the Germans had intrusted the safety of these masterpieces to M. Plevet of Valenciennes, who had also undertaken to watch over the art treasures of his native city during their forced Journey to Brussels. With much difficulty he succeeded in getting the barges safely towed to Brussels, with their precious contents, in spite of the Intense disorganization of the retreating German army; and It Is characteristic of the Germans that on several of the largest cases was Inscribed the name and address Of Prjpce Rupprecht of Qavaria! The art treasures of the north are safe. Even the celebrated pastels of Latour, ; which were the glory of the museum of St Quentln, have been recovered, whilst the Quentln Matsys of Bruges were found In a secret cellar in which they had been hidden. The French government is taking the necessary measures for returning the vagrant works of art to their original museums, and It Is hoped that the magnificent works of Shongauer which belonged to the Colmar museum will soon be re stored by Bavaria, wnere tney are, u t is said, one of the finest ornaments of i the Munich museum! Kaiser Needs Money. The former German emperor, it is learned from competent sources,recently appealed to ' the German revolutionary government ' for money, according to an Associated ! Press dispatch from Weimar. It was said in hla behalf it was impossible for him to continue living upon the bounty and good will of the Dutch nobleman in whose castle he now resides. Herr Hohenzollern, it is said, de1 clares he already had been forced to ' borrow 40,000 guilders from his host ' and could not continue as a debtor. He asked that he be allowed at least a 1 portion of his private fortune. ' The government, after considering 1 the matter, agreed to his request and | instituted a detailed investigation to , determine what portion of the former emperor's supposed fortune really was his and what portion belonged to the . government Investigation showed trie ronner ruier mignt legauy cuwn 75,000,000 marks as his own but the i government decided to allow him tern* I porarlly only 600,000 marks to meet present indebtedness and future ex1 pensea 1 The correspondent's information, In calling attention to this development, 1 declared it put an end to rumors that ' the former emperor had been able to ' take large sums of money with him ' when he fled Into Holland. i , 9 j ' Lincoln Said. Well, as to education, the newspapers are correct. I never went to school more than six months ' in my life. I can say this: That among my earliest recollections I remember how, when a men child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in. a way that I could not understand. I can remember going to my little bedroom, after hearing the neigh' bors talk of an evening with my fath1 er, and spending no small part of the 1 time trying to make out what was the 1 exact meaning of some of their, to me, dark sayings. ! t nnni/1 nnt alppn nJthnuerh I tried to. when I got on such a hunt for an Idea until I had caught It; and when I thought I had got it I was not satis! fled until I had repeated It over and 1 over again and had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any \ boy I knew to comprehend. This was kind of passion with m 3, and it was stuck with me; for I am never easy j now, when I am handling a thought, until I have bounded it north and 1 bounded it south and bounded it east and bounded it west 1 t "7 f A Tip for the League or Nations. Paderewskl is going to be the president of Poland. Then, why not place John McCorm&ck, the Irish sweet singer at the head of the population of the Emerald Isle, and elect Caruso r president of Italy? Thus might harmony be established In Europe. New ' York Globe. C , , , ' tr The man who gosalps about others " will gossip about you